Posts Tagged ‘health’
Click to enlarge graphic. The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack of health insurance is a factor in…
Passengers are screened at a Beirut airport during the swine flu outbreak. Photo by Ramzi Haidar, AFP/Getty Images Last summer, public health experts warned that 2009 H1N1, aka swine flu, could afflict up to 50 percent of the U.S. population…
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Genetically altered bunnies being farmed in the Netherlands may soon be churning out a potentially lifesaving drug, according to a Dutch biotech firm. |
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By tweaking a single gene, scientists have made Hobbie-J the smartest rat in the world. The technique might make humans smarter too—maybe too smart. |
For tens of thousands of years tuberculosis has been humanity’s unwanted companion. Worse still: The latest form—extensively drug-resistant, or XDR, TB—is the most virulent yet of the airborne, organ-ravaging disease. According to the World Health Organization, TB bacteria infect a…
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Journalist-turned Internet technologist, data cruncher, researcher and communications strategist. I also teach these topics at Arizona State University. I enjoy SCUBA diving, mountain biking, hiking and road trips. Always up for a good cup of coffee. 2006 TIME Person of the Year.Want more?
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